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bi⋅corn

  [bahy-kawrn]
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–adjective Also, bi⋅cor⋅nate  [bahy-kawr-nit, -neyt] , bi⋅cor⋅nu⋅ate  [bahy-kawr-nyoo-it, -eyt] , bi⋅cor⋅nu⋅ous.
1. Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
2. shaped like a crescent.
–noun
3. bicorne.
Origin:
1745–55; < L bicornis, equiv. to bi- bi- 1 + corn(ū) horn + -is adj. suffix

Bi⋅corn

  [bahy-kawrn]
–noun
(in early French and English literature) a mythical animal, usually depicted as a grotesquely fat beast, that existed solely by devouring virtuous husbands.
Compare Chichivache.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME Bycorne < MF < L bicornis bicorn

bi⋅corne

  [bahy-kawrn]
–noun
1. a two-cornered cocked hat worn esp. in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
2. a two-horned animal.
Also, bicorn.

Origin:
< F, MF; see bicorn, Bicorn
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bi·cor·nu·ate   (bī-kôr'nyōō-ĭt, -āt')   
adj.  
  1. Having two horns or horn-shaped parts.
  2. Shaped like a crescent.

[From bi-1 + Latin cornū, horn; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Bicorn

Bi"corn\, Bicorned \Bi"corned\, Bicornous \Bi*cor"nous\, a. [L. bicornis; bis twice + cornu horn: cf. F. bicorne. Cf. Bickern.] Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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